Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Design of Design - Summary of Chapters 19 - 20

Chapter 19: Great Designs Come from Great Designers

  • Great Designs and Product Processes
  • Product Processes -- Cons and Pros
    • Do Product Processes Stifle Great Designs?
    • So Why Have a Product Process at All?
      • Follow-On Products.
      • Raising the Level of Design Practice.
      • Isn't Process Necessary Even for Innovative Designs?
  • The Clash: Process Stifles, Process Is Unavoidable; What to Do?
    • Great Designs Come from Great Designers; Find them!
    • Great Designers Require Bold Leaders Who Demand Innovation
    • How to Make a Process That Encourages Great Designs?
    • Go for Conceptuality Integrity: Entrust Your Design to a Chief Designer
Chapter 20: Where Do Great Designers Come From?
  • We Have to Teach Them to Design
  • We Have to Recruit for Design Brillance
  • We Have to Grow Them Deliberately
    • Make the Dual Ladder Real and Honorable
    • Plan Formal Educational Experiences
    • Plan a Varied Set of Work Experiences
    • Plan Sabbaticals Outside the Organization
  • We Have to Manage Them Imaginatively
    • The John Cocke-Ralph Gomory Story.
  • We Have to Protect Them Fiercely
    • Protect Them from Distraction
    • Protect Them from Managers
    • Protect Them from Managing
  • Growing Yourself as a Designer
    • Constantly Sketch Designs
    • Seek Knowledgeable Criticism of Your Designs
    • Study Exemplars and Precedents
    • A Self-Education Project -- Floor Plan for a 1,000-Square-Foot House
      • The Program.
      • Journal.

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